One of the companies I’ve followed closely over the years took funding recently, for the first time. This short Analyst Note covers the funding, including this quick market overview:
We expect to see more interest in the development space, driven not only by devops but also by companies’ increasing desire to use custom-written software to expand their business. Vendors like Atlassian are also riding this wave – Atlassian reported fiscal 2013 revenue of $149m for its ALM offerings.
Posts in "tech"
I think it’s a bit unreasonable to expect a Web application circa 2013 to be still up and runnable in 2053.
"Hell is other people," but don't let that stop you
Lot and lots of discussion about culture and culture change. This discussion has been going on since forever, and if we are being frank with ourselves, it isn’t going to change dramatically soon.
So what to do? Don’t lets make the culture change discussion stop us from doing things. Have a go, fix what you can right now.
“Hell is other people,” but don’t let that stop you
CFEngine marching along
More than 10 million servers in the world are managed by CFEngine today, which is around a quarter of all of the machines installed, depending on whose estimate of the server base you use. Around 10,000 companies worldwide are using CFEngine in at least 100 countries globally.
CFEngine marching along
"Causal Consistency"
“Causal Consistency”
It's hard to know what's really running in all them clouds
I just keep getting questioned: “What’s big in cloud and what’s really happening?” You see people saying the cloud market is a hundred bazillion whatever, most of it unsubstantiated. When you drill in, you find they were making numbers up, top down. Enterprise markets are trillions and trillions, so it’s got to be some percentage right? So we’re trying to go from the bottom up to see if it makes more sense.
New IT spend gobbled by cloud by 2016
From a 2013 Gartner press release:
The use of cloud computing is growing, and by 2016 this growth will increase to become the bulk of new IT spend, according to Gartner, Inc. 2016 will be a defining year for cloud as private cloud begins to give way to hybrid cloud, and nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017.
New IT spend gobbled by cloud by 2016
The two cloud buyers
This anecdote sums up an annoying problem on cloud marketing (and product management):
At the break I chatted with a somewhat bemused attendee who had come in the hope of learning about whether he should migrate some or all of his small company’s server requirements to Azure. I explained about Office 365 and Azure Active Directory which he said was more relevant to him than the intricacies of software development.
“You guys keep asking about that [the IPO] . . . we try to slow down. I don’t think we could move any faster, I don’t think we feel any extra impetus to move faster,” Mr Cannon-Brookes said
“There is no time in the future by which it has to be done, it could never happen, we absolutely could do that. We are in the luxurious position that we have the two founders that are still in total control of the business, so when we feel the business is ready, from the perspective of our market and culturally, we can take that step.”
Converged infrastructure to grow to $6bn in 2014
Gartner, in its “Magic Quadrant for Integrated Systems” report, a copy of which was reviewed by CRN, estimated the market for integrated systems, which includes single-vendor and multivendor converged infrastructures and hyper-converged infrastructures, will grow more than 50 percent in 2014 over 2013 to reach $6 billion.
Converged infrastructure to grow to $6bn in 2014